Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-08-26

II s,a rest aas upon you, but bs,.,,,
~ nae ever s, confronting you that sau s liz
Of few days OF vea, you, Life A.
olack-edged letters that DO aN
Office make you think3 Do zone iah
tors certificate on the deat ans =, mott.
thrill? Your periodical. n Claim d.,
ments, and even the lithosss.usals, adts
policies warn you that ys on d
According to your own sboysEinu.a se ID
that you will die this ye,s 9 thecI
per cent. Are you prena .ad are u
mendous exigency2 The mo,. tor III
man in the Judgment dav u m;n e9uds1
reason that his whole business ,tSs shet
nected with human exit a oes Ts
say: u did not thinks HI; aaa he
ness was to think on that NV ~aole
my brother, get insured f., que a thing
consideration Of what Christ sa.enit
your behalf, have the indentnnsaas q
made out, signed and sealed s u;, ths
seal of the cross. eu with u
But have words of enco,,
comfort for those Of nv heaesgense
engaged in the fire-insuranca I hna! Vi
are ordained by God to sta tn vSassi 81.
and the most raging element Of ps stss
are indebted TO you for what thu as'a u.
board of underwriters and tha 'a W. aas
Of chiefs Of the fire Department. 'I ~
fected through your suoo us aa''
through your encourage ment. s'W1yl w.
debted to you for what Won haxo we
the construction of BUILDINGS eaed
change in the habits Of our cit;es saa Y
by scientific principles ORDERLY 'o a,I 50
e4tinguish the fire, instead Of tb .o ny
riots which used to extinguish tho e o o;s
And We are indebted to you fo r' ~. w.
cessful demands you have mado a y
repeal of unjust laws-for tho h,. ~
have waged against incendiarism ', ~
son-for the fatal blow you hava ~ y.
the theory that corporations have ~ ~
by the cheerfulness and promnt;tuS.
which you have met losses, from WHY.
might have escaped through the t aa
ity of the law. I do not know an wv, ~
men in our midst more HIGH ton "
worthy Of confidence than thesa
and yet I have sometimes feaf s
while your chief business il ~
culate about losses on earthlv
erty, you might without s,4
thought go into that which, in ,s aau
your soul, in your own parlance m;s
called hazards, extra hazards =
hazards. An unforgiven sin in tha
is more inflammable and explosirs
camphene or nitroglycerine. Hoveyl
rates may be-yea, though the whols
were paid down to you in one solid n,s|
you cannot afford to lose your sn mi
not take the risk lest it be said besI
that while in this world you had keen
ness faculty, when you went out Al
world you went out everlasting Civ insol
The scientific Hitchcocks, and Sili1
and Mitchells of the world have /
with the sacred writers TO make Us n
that there is coming conhagrati]
sweep across tho earth, compared
which that Of Chicago, 1871, and h
Boston in 1872, and that of New Yo
1885, were mere nothing. Brooklv
fire! New York on fire! Charleston on
San Francisco on fire! Canton on ire
Petersburg on fire! Paris on fire. Id
on fire! tie Andes on fire! the
mines on fire! the Himalaya on
What will be peculiar about
day will be that the water
which We put out great fires will
take flame; and the Mississippi, and
Ohio, and the st. Lawrence, and
Erie, and the Atlantic and the p
oceans, and tumbling Niagara, shall
red tongues lick the heavens.
geological heats, of the center 0!
world will burn out toward the circu
ence, and the heats of the outside +
burn down from the circumference Il
center, and this world will becoml
only according to the Bible, but accol|
to science, living coal, the living
afterward whitening into ashes. the
scattered by the breath of the last d
cane, and all that will be left Of this \
GUS planet will be the fakes Of \
fallen on other worlds. o.! on thai
will you be tireproof, or will god
total loss? Will you be rescued, or vii
be consumed When this great cath
of the world, with its pillars of rocks,
its pinnacles of mountains, and its Il
of golden mine, and its upholstery Of nj
ing cloud, and its baptismal font d
sea, shall blaze, will you get out %
fire escape of the Lords deliverance'|
on that day for which MI other days
made, may it be found that these lit'
surance men had a paid-up policy
these fire insurance men had giventl
instead of the debris of consumed vol
estate, q house not made with ha
eternal in the heavens.